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Tuesday, 16 June 2015

23-27th July I expect to be in Sweden on an island for RSGB IOTA contest, however I have obtained a licence from Sweden for 60m operation as well (NoV operation only for them) and there is some frequency overlap with UK and as the questions came from some in UK here are the details:

Saturday, 6 June 2015

Sad bit too dangerous right now even though licence did look possible not going to chance it!

Lovely low noise floor, very good beaches all over the island so what might have cliffs blocking signals say East you can also work from the other side of the island where cliffs block signals to the west. Can go inland or to the top of the cliff as seen above and work 360' too. Rare enough IOTA and DXCC to make even a qrp operation a busy one.

Operating location from a top in alps c2600m

Now this was a perfect SOTA location, I stayed on top overnight and used the flag pole to my right to support a 40m/20m dipole, you can see the fixture I connected to, the little ring clamp, as soon as the cable car stopped for the night out came the radio gear, it even snowed! If I had taken 2m yagi would have been amazing location as line of sight was > 80miles, the Eiger and Jungfau (Bernese Oberland group) are in the photo over my right shoulder. Temp dropped to below minus 15 but the morning operating the grey line was fun 100 or so QSO SSB qrp as HB9/M1KTA/P.